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The inventor would have to be God. And it is an element.

2007-12-20 08:40:16 · answer #1 · answered by rann_georgia 7 · 0 1

Calcium has been around longer then man.
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Calcium (Latin calx, meaning "limestone") was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide. It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. Davy was trying to isolate calcium; when he heard that Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself. He worked with electrolysis throughout his life and also discovered/isolated sodium, potassium, magnesium, boron and barium.

2007-12-20 16:16:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 1 0

Pulled this from Wikipedia

History
Calcium (Latin calx, meaning "limestone") was known as early as the first century when the Ancient Romans prepared lime as calcium oxide. It was not isolated until 1808 in England when Sir Humphry Davy electrolyzed a mixture of lime and mercuric oxide. Davy was trying to isolate calcium; when he heard that Berzelius and Pontin prepared calcium amalgam by electrolyzing lime in mercury, he tried it himself. He worked with electrolysis throughout his life and also discovered/isolated sodium, potassium, magnesium, boron and barium.

Other compounds include Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), one of the common compounds of calcium. It is heated to form quicklime (CaO), which is then added to water (H2O). This forms another material known as slaked lime (Ca(OH)2), which is an inexpensive base material used throughout the chemical industry. Chalk, marble, and limestone are all forms of calcium carbonate.

2007-12-20 16:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by mawwelch 2 · 2 0

God?

And He did it through nucleosynthesis in the interior of stars.

It IS an element.

2007-12-20 17:39:44 · answer #4 · answered by Wayner 7 · 0 1

Check Wikipedia. I didn't.

2007-12-20 16:37:04 · answer #5 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0 1

not an element

2007-12-20 16:12:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 5

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